Guide to Pole Signs

Free-standing Pole Signs and Pylon Signs are sometimes referred to
as Road Side Signs, Highway Signs, Freeway Signs, or
small Billboards.

On the detail pages that follow (¬tabs
to left)
discover
how we make each pole or pylon sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing,
structural-steel frames, rust-proof metal, high-end
automotive paint, high-impact plastics or strong
flexible-face materials, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.

Photos of many varied sign
designs are interspersed on the detail pages linked
on the left.

Guaranteed Highest
Quality...

Guaranteed Lowest
Price™

As
detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.

Signs Manufacturing™ also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.

If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.

The Signs Manufacturing On-Location Sales Team's Personalized Service

No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.

Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.

You will probably have a firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.
There are 19 questions you must have answers to before investing in signs. Questions not about the signs themselves, but about how the signs will be perceived, and how long they will take to pay for themselves. Our sales team will bring you a COMPLIMENTARY PROFESSIONAL MARKET SURVEY of your new signage locations. Click on the "Sign Market Research" tab to the left for details.

Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture.

The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE, adding an LED Video Display Showroom because we realized how important one would be to consumers.

If you are considering purchasing an LED Video Display or Digital LED Message Center sign this exclusive opportunity will be particularly important. You must determine what type of sign, and which LED spacing is best, so that your sign will be successful, considering how you will use it.

How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?

Don't buy a sign from a drawing when you can actually see and compare real signs.

No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.

Your business will be better because you do.

If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.

Your business will be better because you do. Can you afford not to?

"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money."

Cecil Drake, Drake Communications

You May Qualify for a "BETTER THAN FREE™" Sign

Dependent on your location, Signs Manufacturing™ may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.

Contact us for exciting details!

Sign Cost Information

We
sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public.

There is a "Cost" tab to the left that lists general budget pricing for pylon signs and explains our 5 different ways of paying for them.

When you do so notice how dealing directly with the manufacturer can potentially save you additional dollars in Texas sales/use taxes!

However, you can purchase right now and save if you know precisely what you want.

The detailed construction and installation information below, and to the left, is very
important in developing a sign that will accomplish
your goals.

If you do not know precisely what you want, please contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Design Center" page!)

Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you
the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in
our industry.)

If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our
website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are
ready.

Fraud Protection

"After being ripped-off by one
sign company, who took my several-thousand-dollar deposit
but never delivered my sign, I was nervous. I'm sure
glad I met you guys!"

Paul Lewis, Jubilee
Mortgage

Signs Manufacturing™ is insured,
registered, licensed and bonded per all City and State
regulations, and even carries product liability insurance to protect our customers, and their customers, which is very rare among sign companies.

We even offer our customers free coverage on a $2,000,000 insurance policy providing Deposit Insurance if we were to default.

Visit our "Cost" tab on the "Sign Types" page for details on all of the above.

We've got you covered!

"...I had to hound Vital ***** (a sign broker) for weeks and weeks, then I had to call ******** (the manufacturer) to finally get a hold of Vital *****. I thought Vital ***** was taking my deposit money and running. When he asked for the second deposit I was kind of hesitant based on my experience with him. I did some research on Vital ***** and there were judgments in Dallas County, civil judgments for Vital ***** taking money and not putting up a sign! But the manufacturer said I had to deal with him, and he already had a great deal of my money.

The installation company he subcontracted with, City *****, finally did show up and after giving them another $30,000 the sign was installed but City ***** didn't pay Vital *****, I guess, his "fair cut" of it.

Vital ***** was initially mad at City ***** and then he was mad at me, so he came and took the controller out of the sign so now it doesn't even work! I tried to go back to ******** (the manufacturer), and gave them all of the documentation and they said it's between me and Vital *****, they won't do anything about it. I'm never dealing any way but directly with a manufacturer again!"

Mr. Sinkler, Freedom Wash

Why Buy Factory-Direct, from a State-Licensed Company?

TURN-KEY Design, Manufacturing, Installation, and Service

Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)

Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?

Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?

Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.

You need to know ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed. It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he telling the manufacturer you don't need?

Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.

Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.

Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.

Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?

As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our LIFETIME* warranty.

If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.

So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.

"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."

Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns

Summary - Pole Signs in a Nutshell

The Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Pole Signs

Our signs are
properly engineered to withstand the winds of North
Texas (100 m.p.h.); signs attached to poles are
welded, not bolted, in place.

Certified
Welding

We employ
Certified Welders. Horizontal, vertical, and
overhead.

We are
virtually the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex employing certified welders.

The
Importance of Sign Thickness

The
thickness of a sign does more than impart a more
prominent importance to a sign, it affects the
graphics.

The minimum allowable thickness
of a sign depends on the type of internal lighting
and the type and size of the sign face.

Lighting and sign face types
will be discussed later.

The larger the sign face the
thicker a properly made sign cabinet must be.

It is very important that the
sign be thick enough that the lighting in the sign
does not show as "hot spots" or "zebra striping" on
the face of your sign. Either of these makes
your sign look "cheap" no matter what its cost.
In some instances these can be so bad that a sign is
not readable at night. You've seen them.

All of this makes the use of
extruded aluminum sign frames problematic in
building a quality sign, to say nothing about a
strong sign (no structural steel inner frame) since
extrusions are only available for limited cabinet
depths; however some sign companies continue to
attempt to do so.signs Manufacturing™ does not
use extruded cabinets precisely for these reasons.

We calculate what is required
to make a proper and impressive sign for you, and
then we build it.

It is more expensive to do the
job right, but what is the value of a "cheap" sign
that gives potential customers a negative impression
of your business?

The
Importance of Retainer Width

Equally important to the appearance of the sign is
the width of the retainer (the ring of metal around
the sign face that covers the mechanism that holds
the sign face
in the cabinet.)

This border
plays a very important role in the apparent quality
of your sign, and both size and color must be
considered in the overall design.

This makes the
use of pre-made extruded aluminum sign frames
undesirable.

Tabs to other components of
a pole/pylon sign are listed down the left side of
this page.

Be sure to
select the link "Sign
Buyer's Check List" to the left.
This is a tool for your use to insure that
quotations you receive are for the same sign!
Insist that your bidders check-mark each line, then
sign the document when they give you their quote.

Free Factory Tour

Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.

Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour.

Using Our Website to Learn About Signs and Create a Successful Image.

Your
sign forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your
sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the
day it was installed so that you don't give potential
customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.

An example of our dedication to helping our customers succeed is this website. It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA! Not bad for a sign company serving North Texas. (We placed the website online in 1999, and have been improving it ever since.)

Click our "Sign Types" tab to the left, then pick any of our products and
discover how we make each sign to last; including the
use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal,
structural-steel frames, high-end automotive paint,
high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.

We champion
brighter, energy-saving
solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment.
No matter what type of signs you are considering, please
explore our "Lighting Choices" tab for that product, with
its own "Energy Savings" tabs. In fact many of our unique sign designs can even be Solar Powered!

We
have lots of experience. Click our "Design Center" tab to the left to learn how
we can help you - for free. We even furnish a "Grand
Opening Package" featuring a free parking
lot "Coming Soon" free-standing portable sign to
attract attention while your sign is being
constructed.

We
will give your company an edge and help make you
money.

We are the
"greenest" sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.

Please use and enjoy this 400+ page, always growing, website with over 2000 images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image.

We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.

Texas' Success Story

The Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" continues as the
fastest growing large city area in the United States, year-after-year. It is the fourth
fastest growing such area in the world. As fast as in China or India!

North Texas is expected to
gain over 4,000,000 new residents in just the next 4 years!
The business economy HERE remains healthy! Well over
100 new businesses are started in just the D/FW Metroplex every week.

Don't let the "doom-n-gloomers"
talk you out of being successful. This is the best time ever to
start a new business in North Texas and Northeast Texas.

State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service

We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.